Posted on 09/02/2006 6:16:03 AM PDT by mware
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., charged on July 31 that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) have covered up "catastrophic failures" that left the nation vulnerable during the Sept. 11 hijackings.
"For almost three years now, NORAD officials and FAA officials have been able to hide their critical failures that left this country defenseless during two of the worst hours in our history," Dayton declared during a Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearing.
During the hearing, Dayton told leaders of the Sept. 11 commission, that, based on the commission's report, a NORAD chronology made public a week after the attacks was grossly misleading. The chronology said the FAA notified the military's emergency air command of three of the hijackings while those jetliners were still airborne. Dayton cited commission findings that the FAA failed to inform NORAD about three of the planes until after they had crashed.
And, he said, a squadron of NORAD fighter planes that was scrambled was sent east over the Atlantic Ocean and was 150 miles from Washington, D.C., when the third plane struck the Pentagon - "farther than they were before they took off."
Dayton said NORAD officials "lied to the American people, they lied to Congress and they lied to your 9/11 commission to create a false impression of competence, communication and protection of the American people." He told Kean and Hamilton that if the commission's report is correct, President Bush "should fire whoever at FAA, at NORAD ... betrayed their public trust by not telling us the truth."
Asked about Dayton's allegation, a spokesman for Colorado Springs-based NORAD said, "We stand on our testimony to the commission" and declined to discuss the 2001 chronology. Erin Utzinger, a spokeswoman for Dayton, said the senator "assumes the FAA knew of NORAD's coverup."
In the weeks ahead, we will be presenting a complete treatment of the old NORAD timeline and of "The Emperor's New Timeline" as spelled out in the Kean Commission report. This will be part of a series exposing the many Omissions of the Commission.
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That goes without saying.
And that was the GOP who I thought would be different than the left wing democrats
That is why we need TERM LIMITS, NOW!
Need NEW BLOOD for every political position every election!
Kick all the bastards out!
"--and your candidate is?"
My candidate from now on is ....
THE OTHER GUY!
If you change the bums every time, they will not get the money nor the power. This BS about "It takes more than one cycle to learn the ropes" is total crap, unless the ropes they're speaking of are the ones where they collect the most money and power from ... which it is.
Thanks for that link. If the Bush administration had been paid off by lobbyists this way and jeopardized the security of American citizens, Bush would be impeached immediately.
Be sure to watch this:
http://www.courttv.com/onair/shows/on_native_soil/index.html
Wherein Kevin Costner as narrator manages to completely overlook the fact that Bill Clinton was POTUS when the U.S.S. Cole was attacked and makes the statement, "When George W. Bush became president he chose not to retaliate for the Cole attack."
So you're supporting Hillary this time? Good to know.
So they lied to the liars on the panel?
I heard about that. And since so many Americans have short memories, that Court TV show will get away with it.
Just damn. And nice link on #46, too.
note to self....SOP?
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